Improvement in wind-wheel pumps



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EDMUND PEPPLE, OF NEW CARLISLE, INDIANA.

HVIPROVEMENT IN WIND-WHEEL PUMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42,503, dated April 26, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it knownA that I, EDMUND PEPPLE, of New Carlisle, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Windmill-Pump; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a central vertical section of my' improved windmill-pump.

The nature of my invention consists in the improved mode of regulating or arresting the speed of the windmill, either automatically or by hand, and in the diminutionof the bore of the pump below the bucket for the purpose of increasing the efliciency of the pump in deep wells, as hereinafter set forth.

To enable others to make and use my improved windmill-pump, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawing, Amarks the arms of the windmill; B, the wings; C, the braces for supporting the wings. These braces are curved, as shown, and receive and are supported in the center by the end of the main shaft D, on which they turn as an axle. and which is prolonged for that purpose. The main shaft D is supported and turns in the revolving head E, which may be turned toward any point of the compass from which the wind may be blowing. Shaft D has a crank, D', atthe middle, to which the upper end of the pump-rod F is attached, and by which the pump is worked. To this. rod is also attached, lower down, the handle G, by which the pump may be worked byhand, when, for any reason, it is not driven by the windmill. His the pumpbucket, which is of the usual construction. A valve, I, below it closes the upper end of the tube K, through which the water rises from the well or reservoir which is the source of supply. This lower tube, K, I make of much smaller diameter than the bore of the upper portion, L, of the pump, in which the bucket H works. This of course increases the emciency of the exhaustive action of the bucket.

M marks the bra-kewheel which is attached to shaft D, and the rotation of which is controlled by the brake-block N, attached to the brake-arm P. The arm P is pivoted to an arm, Q, depending from the stem e of the van O, and supports the rear end of shaft D. By this construction when the shaft D is pressed backward by the action of a heavy wind, the break-block N is caused to descend.

into contact with and retard the motion of the brakewheel M and the shaft to which it is attached. A rope, R, is attached to the lower end of the brake-arm and passes up over a pulley or sheave, c, on the lower side of vane O, and thence down within reach of the attendant. By pulling this rope the brake can at any time be applied to retard or arrest the motion of the brakewheel and main shaft. A spring, S, tends to withdraw the brake from the wheel and to force vthe shaft D forward, antagonizing the action of the wind. The vane O, which is supported by proper braces b d, keeps the wind-wheel always head to the wind.

The head E turns freely on the top of the pump, and the shaft D is free to move backward till its rearward motion is arrested by the action of the brake.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l.v The combination and arrangement ofthe shaft D, wheel M, brake-arm P, and brake N, in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. The general arrangement of the pump and windwheel, substantially as described.

The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed at New Carlisle, this 8th day of December, A. D. 1863.

Witnesses: EDMUND PEPPLE.

JAMEs G. WARNER, J. B. WARNER. 

